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GENUS LOXIA LINNAEUS. 



Loxia LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 171. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Loxia curvirostra LINNAEUS (Gray, 1840). 



Loxia curvirostra LINN^US. 



RANGE. Europe, northern Asia, and northern North America, 

 south in mountains (in North America south to Guatemala). 



a. [Loxia curvirostra curvirostra. Extralimital.] 



6. Loiia curvirostra minor (BREHM). Crossbill. [521.] 



Crucirostra minor BREHM, Allg. deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung, I, 1846, 

 532 (note). (Eastern United States.) 



RANGE. Northern North America. Breeds from central Alaska, northern 

 Mackenzie, central Ungava, and Newfoundland south to California (Sierra 

 Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains), southern Colorado, Michigan, and 

 in the Alleghenies of northern Georgia (casually in Massachusetts, Maryland, 

 and Virginia) ; winters irregularly south to southern California, New Mexico, 

 northern Texas, Louisiana, and Florida; casual in Lower California, Guadalupe 

 Island, and Bermuda. 



c. Loxia curvirostra stricklandi RIDGWAY. Mexican Crossbill. [521 a.] 



Loxia curvirostra stricklandi RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 

 354. (Near City of Mexico, Mexico.) 



RANGE. High mountains of Arizona (San Francisco, Chiricahua, Santa 

 Catalina, and Mogollon mountains), central New Mexico, western Texas, and 

 the higher mountains of Mexico to Chancus, Guatemala. 



Loxia leucoptera GMELIN. White-winged Crossbill. [522.] 



Loxia leucoptera GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 844. (Hudson Bay and 



New York.) 



RANGE. Northern North America. Breeds in Boreal zones from 

 the limit of trees in northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central 

 Keewatin, and northern Ungava south to southern British Columbia, 

 southern Alberta, central Ontario, New York (Adirondacks), New 

 Hampshire (White Mountains) southern Maine, and southern Nova 

 Scotia ; winters in much of its breeding area and southward irregularly 

 to northern Oregon (Cascades), Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, southern 

 Illinois, southern Ohio, and North Carolina; more or less frequent in 

 Greenland, British Isles, and Helgoland. 



